Marine Books at Dial a Book Sydney

POOR SOULS, THEY PERISHED: the Cataraqui, Australia's worst shipwreck.
Lemon, Andrew and Morgan, Marjorie
Book Number: 68135
ISBN: 1875606262
Publisher: Hargreen Publishing Co. Melbourne 1995.
8vo. softcover. 188pp. index, b/w illus. Good+, light foc=xing to outer edge of text-block.
Price: $14.00

Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction
Chappelle, Howard; Jon Wilson (Foreword)
Book Number: 68042
ISBN: 0393035549
Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York, 1994
8vo. hardcover. 624pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / Very good d/w with crease on spine.
Price: $45.00

Details of Classic Boat Construction: The Hull
Pardey, Larry
Book Number: 68043
ISBN: 0964603683
Publisher: Pardey Books, Arcata USA 1999.
Large 8vo. laminated boards, hardcover. 526pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+, a few tiny foxing spots on the edge of text-block.
Price: $55.00

Boatbuilding Manual, Fourth Edition
Steward, Robert M.
Book Number: 68044
ISBN: 0070613761
Publisher: International Marine / Ragged Mountain Press, Camden, Maine, 1994.
8vo. hardcover. 372pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, a little foxing to outer edge of text block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $40.00

Flinders. The Man Who Mapped Australia
Mundle, Robert
Book Number: 68032
ISBN: 9780733630422
Publisher: Hachette, Australia 2013.
8vo softcover 386pp index, colour illus. Very Good.
Price: $12.00

The Voyage of the Challenger
Linklater, Eric
Book Number: 67952
ISBN: 0719526264
Publisher: John Murray, London, 1972.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 288pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Good d/w with tear top of spine.
Price: $16.50

Peter the Whaler in Southern Seas
Colwell, Max; illus. by Geoffrey C. Ingleton
Book Number: 67708
ISBN:
Publisher: Macmillan, Melbourne, 1964.
8vo. hardcover. 118pp. illus. Very good+. / Good d/w with some small tears and a small piece missing from rear bottom edge.
Price: $9.00

Clipper Ships and Their Makers
Laing, Alexander
Book Number: 67668
ISBN:
Publisher: Putnam's Sons, New York 1966.
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

Along the Clipper Way
Chichester, Francis
Book Number: 57813
ISBN:
Publisher: London Hodder & Stoughton 1966
8vo. hardcover. 256pp. b/w maps. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Along the Clipper Way
Chichester, Francis
Book Number: 67672
ISBN:
Publisher: University of London Press 1967.
8vo. illustrated cloth hardcover. 192pp. b/w map. very good.
Price: $10.00

Fastnet Force 10
Rousmaniere, John
Book Number: 67627
ISBN: 0245535748
Publisher: Nautical Publishing Co., Lymington 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 287pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises
Carwardine, Mark; Hoyt, Erich; Fordyce, R Ewan; and Gill, Peter
Book Number: 67408
ISBN: 1862760403
Publisher: Australian Geographic, Terrey Hills, 2000.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 288pp. index, colour illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. / Good d/w with tear at top of spine.
Price: $18.00

HMAS Sydney - loss and controversy
Frame, Tom
Book Number: 67361
ISBN: 0340584688
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Sydney 1993.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 302pp. index. + b/w plates.very good, light foxing to edges. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

War Fish
Grider, George & Sims, Lydel
Book Number: 65692
ISBN: 32104
Publisher: Cassell London, 1959.
8vo. hardcover. 215pp. Good, some foxing, small amout of insect damage to edge of front endpaper & half title. / Good d/w chipped at spine ends, with some small tears on edges.
Price: $45.00

Learning the Ropes. An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers
Newby, Eric
Book Number: 67312
ISBN: 0719556414
Publisher: John Murray, London, 2000
Square 4to. softcover. 144pp. b/w illus. Very good, page edges lightly toned.
Price: $25.00

Shipshape and Bristol Fashion.
Hill, John C.G.
Book Number: 67306
ISBN: 0905459709
Publisher: Redcliffe Press, Bristol 1983.
8vo. hardcover. 113pp. colour & b/w plates. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

The mutiny on board H.M.S. Bounty, 1789
Bligh, William
Book Number: 32706
ISBN: 0861340329
Publisher: Guildford, Surrey Pageminster Press in association with Argot Press & M. Beazley 1981
Tall 4to hardcover 200pp, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Facsimile of portion of the Admiralty copy of Bligh's log reference ADM 55/151. The original is housed at the Public Record Office, Kew.
Price: $20.00

Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast
Snow, Edward Rowe
Book Number: 67104
ISBN:
Publisher: The Yankee Publishing Company, Boston, 1944
8vo. hardcover. 350pp. index, b/w plates. Good, fep. damaged, pages lightly toned. Fair, torn d/w.
Price: $15.00

The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson
Jolly, Roslyn
Book Number: 66971
ISBN: 0295983701
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press, 2004.
8vo. hardcover. 205pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Exploring the Lusitania
Ballard, Robert
Book Number: 66729
ISBN: 0297813145
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1995
4to hardcover 228pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good owner's inscriptions on fep. / very good d/w. This is an investigation into the sinking of the Lusitania by a German torpedo in May 1915. Nearly 1200 civilian lives were lost. But rumours of conspiracies and cover-ups surround the liner: was she carrying munitions? Was she armed? Was there hope that her sinking might draw the US into the war?
Price: $12.00

The fatal lights: Two strange tragedies of the sea
Mead, Tom
Book Number: 66571
ISBN: 0909089035
Publisher: Sydney Dolphin Books 1993
8vo softcover 123pp b/w illus. very good. Signed by author.
Price: $18.00

The Rhythm of the Shoe
Erikson, Hans
Book Number: 66574
ISBN:
Publisher: Jacaranda Press, 1964
8vo. hardcover. 122pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Good+ d/w
Price: $10.00

Shipwrecks; Being the Historical Account of Shipwrecks on the Victorian Coast from Peterborough to Cape Otway 1843 -- 1914
MacKenzie, Margaret E.
Book Number: 66573
ISBN:
Publisher: National Press, Melbourne 1954.
8vo. stapled softcover. 85pp. Very good, owner's signature on cover.
Price: $15.00

The Valleys of the Assassins, and Other Persian Travels
Stark, Freya
Book Number: 66504
ISBN:
Publisher: John Murray London 1937. Cheap edition
8vo. hardcover. 365pp. index, b/w illus. folding maps(extra map tipped in by previous owner). Good, some foxing. / Fair, chipped d/w.
Price: $25.00

The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne 1841-1844 (Pacific History Series: No. 3)
Shineberg, Dorothy (editor) [Andrew Cheyne]
Book Number: 66331
ISBN: 0708101259
Publisher: Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1971
8vo. hardcover. 351pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale
Severin, Tim
Book Number: 66327
ISBN: 0316645958
Publisher: Little Brown & Co., London, 1999
8vo. hardcover. 242pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good+. / Good+ d/w rubbed and creased on front edge.
Price: $22.00

Fair Winds to Australia: 200 Years of Sail on the Australia Station
Lind, Lew
Book Number: 38989
ISBN: 0730102165
Publisher: Reed 1988
4to. hardcover. 208pp. index, b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ships Boats Vessels and Other Water Borne Craft
Blackburn, Graham
Book Number: 66275
ISBN: 0719536154
Publisher: John Murray, London, 1978.
4to. hardcover. 447pp. b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers & outer page edges. / Good d/w with small tears at top of a foxed spine.
Price: $18.00